Relationship of Social Determinants of Health and Health Utilization among Medicare and Medicaid-Enrolled People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (R2)
Research project R2 addresses one of the primary goals of our RRTC, which is to contribute to improving health outcomes of marginalized communities by examining the connection between social determinants of health (SDoH) and use of health care, employing data obtained from Medicare and Medicaid (or the Medicare-Medicaid Linked Enrollees Analytic Data Source). The R2 project will be a continuation of the work that was initially developed under the IDEAL RRTC.
Project staff will conduct statistical analyses to explore how marginalized groups within the disability community experience disparities, as well as how different SDoH contribute to these disparities. This project will inform system and community approaches to address observed health disparities.
The main goals of this project are:
- To quantify county-specific SDoH changes that are potentially related to utilization of health care and could possibly be affected by policy changes.
- To evaluate differences in the use of health care between samples of publicly insured U.S. adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are more or less likely to experience disparity.
- To explore the difference in impact of county-level SDoH on the use of health care by individuals in diverse racial/ethnic groups as well as those living in poverty.